Sometimes the life story that happens in books can happen in real life…movies aren't the only thing that have real life written… — Shar-rae Copy Share Image
“My TV’s remote control didn’t have a source of energy, so I poured coffee in it. Now I can read any book… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
“I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I’ll… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing… — Cal Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.” — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are… — Josh Lucas Copy Share Image
... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“I pinch the sentence's butt with my other hand and tug it from my skin like a leech, smack it back on… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
“People talk about books being an escape...this one feels more like a lifeline.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Literature is the most legal drug of all. And the most peaceful way of escaping reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.” — Megan Frazer Blakemore Copy Share Image
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It's more like she left some of herself behind in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she… — Marie Bostwick Copy Share Image
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“We used Matlab code released by Carl Rassmussen and Chris Williams to accompany their Gaussian processes book.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image